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ReMix UK 08 videos online – including me…

Mike dropped me an email to say the ReMix videos are now online. That is a lot of video as ReMix was 4 tracks over the two days - I missed a lot of great sessions! You can watch the videos online now. I certainly recommend you take some time to watch Read More...
Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 9:50 PM by ericnel | 3 Comments

Links from VS2008 SP1 event 2nd Oct 2008

The links from the session today are over on a new blog we are trying out to get all our post event resources in one place. Check it out . Thanks to all who attended and the great questions during and after. Feedback always welcome – and do let me know Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:33 PM by ericnel | 1 Comments

.NET Developer Network in Bristol – Oct 13th additional session

I finally managed to get along to my local user group last week and had a great time. Whilst it meets 10 miles from my home, I seem to rarely be 10miles from them when the actual date comes around. It was good to chat with Guy who runs it and many of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 12:44 PM by ericnel | 1 Comments
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Fiddler and ADO.NET Data Services

It was my colleague MikeT who put me on to Fiddler a while back and it has proven to be really useful for my work with Data Services. By chance I just came across this example in which Shawn uses Fiddler to look at performance issues. At which point I Read More...
Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 4:19 PM by ericnel | 1 Comments

Links for QBS Event Wed 24th September

Apologies to those who attended last week. I did promise to put up a blog post with all my links. Hopefully you got most of them from my previous blogs on a similar event we held on the 17th and from a related session I did a ReMix UK. The missing link Read More...
Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 3:24 PM by ericnel | 1 Comments

Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in October – will you be there?

I just spotted that my colleague MikeT kicked off a “ Are you a UK person heading to PDC ” thread on Channel9 . I would be amazed if (at the time of writing) there are only 6 or so of you going :-) Go on, take a minute to add yourself . PDCs are great Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:56 AM by ericnel | 1 Comments
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Links for Remix session on Entity Framework, 19th Sept

All of the links I showed are included in a session I did last week for QBS except the following: Dynamic Data Entity Framework Workaround – this allows ADO.NET Entity Framework to better work with ASP.NET Dynamic Data ADO.NET Entity Framework Extensions Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:28 AM by ericnel | 3 Comments

Links for QBS Event Wed 17th Sept

As promised, the links from my session today on the new data stuff on 3.5 and 3.5 SP1. Thanks for listening. General ADO.NET Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet Mike in our team http://www.miketaulty.com ( search Entity or LINQ ) Data Platform Developer Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:00 PM by ericnel | 3 Comments

Funny old world – who is this eric guy who thinks he can email me?

I opened Outlook today to find some spam about MSDN :-) I nearly deleted it without reading – but then spotted who it was from – it was from me :-) I did write it – but that was many weeks ago and I had completely forgotten we were sending these out:- Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:54 AM by ericnel | 0 Comments
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How useful are the different sections of the MSDN Flash?

As a fairly new editor of the UK MSDN Flash I am curious to know which sections people find most useful and why. All other suggestions also very happily received. Read More...
Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 10:52 AM by ericnel | 1 Comments
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Offtopic – Fancyaferret.co.uk

The very first domain I registered was fancyaferret.co.uk. This was many years back and TBH the reason now escapes me. The first thing I did with it was place an image of David Cassidy up on it – which is another story all together. Anyway – my lovely Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:12 PM by ericnel | 1 Comments
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RemixUK next week – I have a session on ASP.NET and the Entity Framework

Mike who owns the dev track at Remix has unfortunately lost a speaker and I have offered to help – and to my surprise he said yes. The slight challenge being that I am very light on Silverlight and whilst I was once quite heavily into ASP.NET (back in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:08 PM by ericnel | 2 Comments

How did we get to Wednesday?

Blimey – this week has been busy. If your metaphor for working on lots of things is “juggling balls”, well I feel like I fell into the under 5’s ball pit :-) My blog has been one of those things that has had to be “dropped” – just at the time when I have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:01 PM by ericnel | 3 Comments
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Calling Microsoft Developers in… Lincolnshire

Just spotted that some folks are trying to set up a new user group in Lincolnshire called (rather cleverly) the "Lincolnshire Microsoft Developers User Group". You can find them at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LMSDev/ In their own words: Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:51 PM by ericnel | 2 Comments
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Should we do a regular podcast?

Just about to go to sleep – but wanted to throw out something I have been pondering on. Should we as a team create a regular weekly podcast? The facts are: As a team we screencast, blog, do events etc As a team we do not podcast I work with some very Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 12:38 AM by ericnel | 8 Comments
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